Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yoshiko Sakuma · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yujiro Ishihara

Synopsis Feudal Japan, 1543 to 1562. Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Sakuma · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yûko Kotegawa

Synopsis This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a...

Direction Wash Westmoreland

Cast Alicia Vikander · Riley Keough · Naoki Kobayashi · Jack Huston

Synopsis The Earthquake Bird is a Tokyo-set female-driven noir thriller that tells the story of young female expat who is suspected of murder after her friend goes missing in the wake of a tumultuous love triangle with a handsome local photographer.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Imai · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis Takakura is a young gang boss tricked by the villainous Toru Abe. His underlings, lead by Chiezo Kataoka, start planning for revenge after Takakura dies in jail.

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Rentarô Mikuni · Tetsurô Tanba · Ken Takakura

Synopsis Two violent gangster gangs started a war between them. The police open their investigation with the help of an infiltrate.

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Ineko Arima · Kuniko Miyake · Eitarô Shindô · Ushio Akashi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Sakuma · Eitarô Shindô · Masahiko Tsugawa

Synopsis Jirochô and his men host a group of starving sumo fighters, who end up performing an exhibition while a yakuza bosses' meeting takes place.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Sakuma · Shingo Yamashiro · Masahiko Tsugawa

Synopsis Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Koji Tsuruta · Ken Takakura · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Hideki Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Yoshiko Mita · Rentarô Mikuni · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Yoshiko Sakuma · Junko Sakurada · Takako Irie

Synopsis One of Kon Ichikaw's adaptations of the Kindaichi Kousuke detective stories written by Yokomizo Seishi. This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kinya Kitaoji · Akiko Santo · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Synopsis A troupe of Chinese acrobats go to Japan to help celebrate the building of a shrine. At the same time a series of mysterious assassinations take place. Master swordsman Saotome try to solve the puzzling crimes.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Ken Takakura · Chiezô Kataoka · Yoshiko Sakuma · Sô Yamamura

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Sakuma · Shingo Yamashiro · Hiroki Matsukata

Synopsis The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the smartest and...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Hiroki Matsukata · Jūzō Itami · Tatsuo Umemiya

Synopsis Action drama about "human torpedoes" used during the Second World War.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ken Takakura · Sô Yamamura · Yoshiko Sakuma

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Minoru Oki · Shingo Yamashiro · Yoshiko Sakuma

Synopsis Jirochô and his henchmen rescue Onaka, who was taken by a rival's gang, but during the escape Ochô, Jirochô's wife, falls ill.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Yoshiko Sakuma · Chikage Awashima · Aiko Mimasu · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Synopsis Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ken Takakura · Yoshiko Sakuma · Eitarô Shindô